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Hopi
Etymology
From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa. Cognates include Comanche paa, Northern Paiute paa, Panamint paa, Shoshone paa, Tübatulabal bal, Serrano bāte, Gabrielino-Fernandeño par Cahuilla pál, Luiseño páála, Classical Nahuatl ātl, Yaqui baa'am.
Noun
paahu (plural paavahu)
- water (in nature)
- spring
Synonyms
- kuuyi (“water (contained)”)
Further reading
- A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon (→ISBN, 1985)
- Ekkehart Malotki, Michael Lomatuway'ma, Lorena Lomatuway'ma, Hopi Tales of Destruction (2002, →ISBN, page 142